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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a "war crime," rejecting a suggestion that the U.N. might include the Holocaust in Gaza's school curriculum.

A senior Israeli official said such statements should make the West think twice about ending its boycott of Hamas, in place since the group seized Gaza by force in 2007. Israeli officials called the comments as "obscene" and said they place Hamas in a pariah club of Holocaust deniers that includes Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Hamas spiritual leader Younis al-Astal lashed out after hearing that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the main U.N. body aiding Palestinian refugees, planned to introduce lessons about the Holocaust to Gaza students.

Adding the Holocaust to the curriculum would amount to "marketing a lie and spreading it," al-Astal wrote in a statement.

"I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies," he wrote.

A U.N. official said no decision has been made about introducing Holocaust education in Gaza.

Many Palestinians are reluctant to acknowledge Jewish suffering, fearing it might diminish their own. Attitudes toward the Holocaust range from outright denial to challenging its scope.

Hamas has been making overtures to the West, hoping to end a stifling blockade of Gaza. And the statements about the Holocaust by senior Hamas officials could undermine the group's attempt to present itself as pragmatic. The U.S. and Europe list Hamas as a terror group, but there have been growing calls, particularly in Europe, to talk to the militants. Hamas control of Gaza is seen as a key obstacle to any Mideast peace deal.

Three teachers at U.N. schools said that according to the new program, basic information about the Holocaust was expected to be taught to eighth grade students as part of human rights classes.

Two of the teachers said they were told about the lesson plan by colleagues involved in the new syllabus. Another teacher said he attended a recent meeting with education officials where he was told to try to teach the new syllabus without offending parents' sensibilities.

All three said they had not received the syllabus for the human rights classes yet, even though the school year began in late August. They requested anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to reporters.

UNRWA provides education, health care and welfare services to more than half of Gaza's 1.4 million people. Spokesman Chris Gunness said a final decision has not been made about the Holocaust course for Gaza schools.

"While the Holocaust is currently not included on the basis of age appropriateness, all elements (of the curriculum) remain under review and under evolution," he said.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri also objected to including what he referred to as the "so-called Holocaust" in the lesson plan. "We think it's more important to teach Palestinians the crimes of the Israeli occupation," he said.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said countries contemplating ending their boycott of Hamas must "seriously reconsider" after the Hamas statements, which he described as "obscene."

The Holocaust is not taught in West Bank schools, said an education ministry official in Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas' government.

Israelis have long complained that Palestinian textbooks present Israel only as an enemy, despite a series of interim peace deals. Also, they charge that maps in the books do not show Israel at all.

Palestinians make similar charges about Israeli education. Recently Israel's education minister ordered a halt to using the accepted Arabic term "nakba," or catastrophe, to describe the results of the two-year war that followed Israel's creation, when about 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes.

The U.N. runs 221 schools in Gaza for more than 200,000 students and is the largest independent agency in the territory, controlled by Hamas since a violent takeover in 2007. The West Bank, the other territory that is supposed to comprise a future Palestinian state, is controlled by Hamas' Western-backed rivals of the Fatah movement, led by President Mahmoud Abbas.

Some 6 million Jews were killed in the Nazi campaign to wipe out European Jewry, and the urgent need to find a sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of survivors contributed to the creation of Israel after World War II.

Many Palestinians are reluctant to acknowledge the full extent of the Holocaust because they feel it provided legitimacy for Israel's establishment. A majority of Gaza's 1.4 million people are Palestinian refugees or their descendants.

Some parents opposed the idea of their children learning about the Holocaust. "I don't want them teaching my children Jewish lies," Mohammed Silmi, 33, said Monday, after driving his son to a U.N. school in Gaza City on the back of a motorbike. "It will just be Zionist propaganda."

Hamas' founding charter calls for Israel's destruction, though senior Hamas officials have recently said they would accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel as an interim stage to full Islamic control of the region.

Hamas is frequently at loggerheads with the U.N. refugee agency, which it considers the only serious challenge to its control of Gaza. Over the summer, Hamas accused the U.N. of spreading "immorality" in summer camps for children, because it offered activities such as folk dancing and crafts
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Reasonable people....Hamas :o
 
This suicide actions are just a form of population control. They use these idiots as walking bombs to give them something worthwhile, in their eyes, to do. There is not much normal employment available to these guys and so they are easy fodder for organisations like Hamas. If Hamas really cared about their people that would be trying to get the economy back on track instead of fighting with Israel. It takes two to argue and only one to build something,
 
Balstrome said:
This suicide actions are just a form of population control. They use these idiots as walking bombs to give them something worthwhile, in their eyes, to do. There is not much normal employment available to these guys and so they are easy fodder for organisations like Hamas. If Hamas really cared about their people that would be trying to get the economy back on track instead of fighting with Israel. It takes two to argue and only one to build something,
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In this case it's more like "It takes two to tango, but only one to slip"... :D
 
Balstrome said:
This suicide actions are just a form of population control. They use these idiots as walking bombs to give them something worthwhile, in their eyes, to do. There is not much normal employment available to these guys and so they are easy fodder for organisations like Hamas. If Hamas really cared about their people that would be trying to get the economy back on track instead of fighting with Israel. It takes two to argue and only one to build something,
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Keep the populace uneducated. Sounds like the ANC.


Notice that's exactly what the apartheid state Israel did too :o
 
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Haha.. The level of Ignorance is unbelievable.

Anyway, onto the subject of the Palistinians, they are RIGHT NOW suffering a holocaust of their own, which is being performed by the ZIONAZI's. The West Bank and Gaza are Concentration camps and Israel controls their borders. Israel controls what goes in and what goes out of these regions, there may appear to be a government (Fatah) but they are mostly nothing more than Israeli puppets. The last true leader of the Palestinians was Arafat, and at a recent Fatah Meeting, the a high ranking official made the following allegations.

accusations made by senior Fatah member Farouk Kaddoumi (Abu Al Lutf), against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former security minister Mohammad Dahlan for having allegedly conspired with former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon to get rid of Yasser Arafat in 2004.
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Offcourse, these are just allegations, but for a senior member to make these assertions in front of the president and the press, mean that they must have some evidence or information. Why would they say that if it was a guess?

Israel is guilty of countless atrocities against the palestinians and war crimes. The day of reckoning is near.

It is foolish of Hamas saying blatantly insensitive things like this about the holocaust, although I myself question the accuracy of "6 million" Jews. I have read many books regarding the subject, many by jews themselves, like Holocaust Industry by Norman G. Finkelstein which claim these figures are vastly overstated and the whole story is innaccurate.

I have also read some books which discuss the dealings of the Zionist Leadership and the Nazi leadership with the relocation of Jews from Europe to Palestine. Now these are valid questions, which need to be answered and if you DARE bring them up, you are automatically labelled a Holocaust Denier and a Anti-Semite.

I am no such thing, however, I do look for truth, and refuse to accept claims without supporting evidence. Say what you will, I don't care. And more and more people are realising this, which is why they are making Hate Speech laws in the West that will see prison sentences if you question the holocaust!
 
Good thing if you happen to be Christian or Jewish, Bad thing if you are an Arab.

Karma is going to suck for the Jews and Christians when they have to pay for what they allowed to happen to the arabs.
 
Fieldy said:
Good thing if you happen to be Christian or Jewish, Bad thing if you are an Arab.

Karma is going to suck for the Jews and Christians when they have to pay for what they allowed to happen to the arabs.
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Maybe this is Karma for all the terrorism that the Pallies have been committing for years? ;)
 
Fieldy said:
Haha.. The level of Ignorance is unbelievable.
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Haha .... the level of indoctrination is what we've learnt to expect.
Anyway, onto the subject of the Palistinians, they are RIGHT NOW suffering a holocaust of their own, making ......
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Fixed.

Fieldy said:
Karma is going to suck for the Jews and Christians when they have to pay for what they allowed to happen to the arabs.
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Like the karma of the "Six Day War" :D

What about the karma for all the killing of Muslims by Muslims?
This appears to happen on a larger scale, but that's OK with you I guess.
 
heh 6 day war still goes down as one of the best examples of what "getting the snot beaten out of you" means.
 
If Hamas teachers the kiddies about the Holocaust.....
.... it might inspire them!!

:o
 
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